Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006
Subject: #320 New York Times On Failed Drug Policies
NEW YORK TIMES ON FAILED DRUG POLICIES
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DrugSense FOCUS Alert #320 – Friday, 13 January 2006
This week, The New York Times has printed three good
items.
ON Tuesday, Jan 10 they carried an OPED written by Leslie Crocker
Snyder, a former New York State judge. She states that New York state
needs to further reform the infamous 1975 “Rockefeller” drug laws.
ALSO on Tuesday in the Times Health Section, personal health
columnist Jane E.. Brody takes on the Drug Enforcement
Administration’s jihad against doctors who try to treat chronic,
debilitating pain in their patients.
ON Thursday, Jan 12 the Times editorial board gives a harsh critique
about the effects of two decades of ever-escalating mandatory minimum
sentencing for drug offenses.
Please consider writing at least one Letter to the Editor to the
editors of The New York Times with your personal comments on one or
each of the articles.
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The three articles can be seen by going to these MAP URLs:
US NY: OPED: Reform The Reforms
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n029/a03.html
US NY: Column: Let’s Get Serious About Relieving Chronic Pain
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n037/a09.html
US NY: Editorial: Drugs and Racial Discrimination
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n050/a03.html
Letters to the New York Times should not exceed 150
words.
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Thanks for your effort and support.
It’s not what others do — It’s what YOU do
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Additional suggestions for writing LTEs are at our Media Activism Center:
http://www.mapinc.org/resource/#guides
Or contact MAP Media Activism Facilitator Steve Heath for personal
tips on how to write LTEs that get printed.
heath@mapinc.org
You are welcome to join Steve and other LTE writing friends of MAP
every Tuesday and Thursday evening at 9 p.m. Eastern, 8 p.m.
Central, 7 p.m. Mountain and 6 p.m. Pacific time for a roundtable
discussion of how to write LTEs that are printed.
See: http://mapinc.org/resource/paltalk.htm for details on how you
can participate in this important meeting of leading minds in
reform. Discussion is conducted with live Voice (microphone and
speakers all that is needed) and also via text messaging.
The Paltalk software is free and easy to download and install.
The password for these gatherings is
PW: welcome-pal (all lower case)
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PLEASE SEND US A COPY OF YOUR LETTER
Please post a copy of your letter or report your action to the sent
letter list (sentlte@mapinc.org) if you are subscribed, or by
E-mailing a copy directly to heath@mapinc.org if you are not
subscribed. Your letter will then be forwarded to the list so others
can learn from your efforts.
Subscribing to the Sent LTE list (sentlte@mapinc.org) will help you to
review other sent LTEs and perhaps come up with new ideas or
approaches as well as keeping others aware of your important writing
efforts.
To subscribe to the Sent LTE mailing list see
http://www.mapinc.org/lists/index.htm#form
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Prepared by: Stephen Heath, MAP Media Activism Facilitator =.